Canvassing for Opinion - aka "Blairs Brain on Cannabis"

IMHO prohibition sentiment requires inherent addiction to status quo, an incapacity to visualise beyond the here and now and a desperate desire to know others might feel the same...
Reform is not revolutionary, rather it is evolutionary. Having survived banging your head against a brick wall the evolutionist relishes having stopped. / Blair

Thursday, June 04, 2015

Drug Dogs Get the Pink Slip! [So too should the handler]

The same argument should be applied to entire drug enforcement teams....
They suffer the same affliction as the Dogs, synaptic lock down believing for so long that what they do amounts to 'some good'. Any coerced change in underlying ethos will only give them Post Trauma Syndrome and a Suppressed Guilt Complex as they struggle with saying Sorry to all those they have busted and risk acute epilepsy like symptoms as they are compelled to walk past a 'sophisticated grow lab'.

Friday, September 05, 2014

Vote for Class D

If smoking cannabis is not such a big deal, how can merely helping people obtain it justify locking anyone in a cage for years, or taking their house and other property premised on prohibition's marginal risk, or deny the ethical right to adult consensual behaviour by use of covert and overt force.

Ending marijuana prohibition as the most popular vote on citizensbriefingbook.change.gov

Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Womens Health and Wellbeing "Buggered By Cannabis Law"

Womens Health and Wellbeing "Buggered By Cannabis Law" says advocate for political resolution.

The researchers stress that marijuana and alcohol are associated with unique adverse outcomes in teens. Outcomes differ by sex and race/ethnicity, and perception or experience of adverse outcomes may also be related to legal status and associated stigma.

Public health interventions may be more effective by focusing on prevention and harm reduction strategies for these drug-specific outcomes."We hope that the findings of this study will contribute to the ongoing debate on marijuana policy and its perceived harm when compared to alcohol," concluded Dr. Palamar.

These sure are "unique adverse outcomes" - regular users caught in proportion to posession risk, a direct function of zero tolerance policing? under law.. Consider too the supply chain in New Zealand, largely friendly networks where Growers are at 100% risk, and perceptions of law 100% alienated.Whereas: Cannabis consumers make good friends! Alcohol consumers need to "Hang on to their mates!" (Canterbury District Health Board, Community and Public Health Poster) This research sure makes a mockery of the longheld attitude within Healthy Christchurch, clearly inconsistent with 'all voices at the table' Ottawa Charter principles. Perhaps the authors comments on cannabis and its social ecology, adverse consequences and disabled health promotion has a higher relevance now.

Time to source and distribute some reality drug education to all New Zealand political candidates.... especially the ones who profess to care about the youth, who on this issue seemingly are happy we are doing enough! Journalistic 'devils advocates' have long shaped the political dialog. [Hone's about turn questioned? Good lord media, is alcohol advertising paying your wages?]Med Pot doesn't do justice to the argument. Emotionally yes, but the harms remain. This is the Justice to administer 'honestly' and the failure to resolve it, is the f'email/male scandal of the century. We should equally be embarrassed.... 'the stigma' and negative association with mental health is a travesty.

Although cannabis users did not differ from other substance users in terms of positive psychotic symptoms, multivariate analysis revealed that they were significantly younger, less likely to use alcohol above safe limits, more likely to be of Black or Asian ethnicity, more likely to be noncompliant with antipsychotic medication, and had fewer negative symptoms than other substance users.

see http://www.news-medical.net/news/20130305/Quitting-cannabis-may-not-alleviate-psychosis.aspx

For the price of a free lunch, we could have best practice education and restore Labour's Class D 'all drug policy' -Restricting substances [regulations] are the required bottom line for heralding good governance, social stability and economic conservatism, without which our reality post 20th Sept will be a somnambulistic cactus cake.Class D is the Stuff of Social Capital! The research is in, it is exonerative.We have a choice, Stay Sick or Get Well Soon.

Piss or get off the Pot Mr Key!

John Key called out the Editor of the Christchurch Press when she said of the re-build projects that four years down the line we have a [partly] completed riverside track.... Key retorted referencing the four page advertorial to be published prior to election day saying how well we (Brownlee et al) are doing... while RNZ did rightly question the probity of this being electoral advertising I have another spin on it that wasnt asked at the Christchurch (Stuff.co.nz online debate) event last night.

English: John Key at the reopening of City Mall in Christchurch on 29 October 2011. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Perhaps Mr Key would like to address himself to the press.co.nz two page oped on page 6 of the "Escape" lift out published the same day (Monday 1st Sept) headlined "Weed AND wildflowers" exploring in journalistic delight the merits of Colorado's recent experience with legal cannabis.

Writer Colin Covert's (is that a pseudonym?) by-line is "Marijuana tourism is a budding industry in Colorado after recreational cannabis use was legalised."

"Colorado:where prohibition ends and the fun begins" reads one of the advertisements in this travel section.

Where do I book my tickets many will be thinking.

Others of course will be thinking, like this writer "And where the hell is the political debate here?"

Dunne the Insignificant

Dunne, who on less and less votes and insignificant recognition in recent polls, lead and then abandoned his vain attempt to reconcile his Drug Tzar label and his need to succeed [at something] after announcing his world class regulation of psychoactives. He was flogging a dead horse. No good will come of any drug by drug approach that insulates alcohol and marginalises 500,000 kiwi cannabis consumers. Drug by Drug [vs All Drug policy] is utterly necessary to ensure cannabis stay where it is. It is also inconsistent with the nations guiding document on drug policy, aptly named the "National Drug Policy" which was a world first in its liberal thinking and proposing that best practice [public health] would be found in the holistic vision of an ALL DRUG (inc legal ones) policy trajectory... later endorsed by the Law Commission.

Peter Dunne ruined all that when he struck down the "Restricted Substances Regulations 2008" in favour of his dog's breakfast, PSA!

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